# TheSportsDB Athlete Search

> TheSportsDB Athlete Search is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Search athletes across any sport by name, returning team, sport, nationality, and position metadata from TheSportsDB.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/tsdb-player-search
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thesportsdb-athlete-search-7edf24ec
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ea-w4GboO7kaFVi9BB_Le

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability thesportsdb-athlete-search-7edf24ec -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you look up Lionel Messi on TheSportsDB and tell me his current team, nationality, and position?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to look up biographical and team metadata for athletes across any sport by name. Prefer this over sport-specific APIs when the sport is unknown or when you need multi-sport coverage. Best for agent workflows that need to enrich a player name with structured profile data.

## Known failure modes

- No athlete found matching the query name — returns empty results array
- Ambiguous name returns multiple athletes across different sports — agent must disambiguate
- Misspelled or partial name may return no results
- Rare or lesser-known athletes may not be indexed in TheSportsDB
- Payment failure (402) if USDC not provided correctly

## How this service works

TheSportsDB (any sport): search athletes by name - team, sport, nationality, position. Query: ?q= Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON object containing athlete profile data including player name, team affiliation, sport, nationality, and playing position for matched athletes from TheSportsDB.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thesportsdb-athlete-search-7edf24ec/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from clonecho.builda.company](https://www.zero.xyz/host/clonecho.builda.company/llms.txt)